Some of these layouts include Colemak, Dvorak, and AZERTY. Languages such as Chinese, Swedish, and Arabic have far more letters and symbols and don't map perfectly to the ANSI keyboard layout.īeyond languages, there are many people around the world who use alternative layouts to QWERTY that allow them to type faster and strain their fingers less. A standard American National Standards Institute (ANSI) layout is a physical representation of the English language. People that use Adobe Photoshop or Premier often have special key bindings for most of their keyboard.Īlso, while the English-language QWERTY keyboard layout is the most common type used, there are many other languages spoken on Earth. While normal typists make do with simple macros like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, programmers and gamers have much more advanced needs. At the core of all our keyboards is the ability to easily reconfigure any key to do any action. People all over the world use keyboards every day, for a variety of purposes. This may seem like a standard process to people active in the open source community, but I assure you that it is not the norm when making keyboards. The open source firmware, the Keyboard Layout Language (KLL), has contributors all over the world. The design files for our keyboard frames and circuit boards are available via GitHub.
Welcome to the communityĪt Input Club, we design and produce mechanical keyboards using this same philosophy and workflow, similar to how a person might develop a website or application.